Green Sunday

Blurb

When TJ, a fat neckbeard small time youtuber living with his mom met a strange girl in his one note town, he thought his luck was changing. What he didn’t know; on her heels was a deepweb gameshow bent on bringing his hick mountain town to its knees, just for sport.
Unleashing flesh hungry, zombies, feral survivors and monstrous abortions of science onto his once peaceful town. TJ is forced to embrace his own fantasy and play a sick game for a hungry internet audience. Get the girl, kill the bad guys and save what remains of his burning town or failing that just himself, his mother and his collection anime figures.

'No Pussy Blues'

The wind blew through the cherry blossoms in the Sakuragoaka
gardens. Musashi knelt and cleared his mind, letting his cares drift on the
wind. He saw without seeing as he closed his eyes, his mind clacking in the
dark of his dreams, igniting a small flame of consciousness. His thoughts
wandered silently as he smelled the fires burning in the distance, food cooking
in the next town over. Dogs’ barks travelled over the mountains as whispers in
the cool evening air were ushered in by the coming night.

The ground he knelt on was soft, and grass stained his dark
brown robes. He hadn’t washed for days or combed his hair. Cleanliness had
become a pretence he didn’t much care for.

Suddenly the air became tighter and sharper as pinpricks
brushed his skin. His eyes cracked open and let in some light as his mind came
soaring back, like a demon hurtling into this world. A foot touched down on the
grassy earth and sent shockwaves through the ground and then another and
another and another and another and another.

Three sets of two … his eyes closed again as he listened.
Three men or one six-legged demon. He’d only know when he cut it. They’d only
exist when his blade touched them and then only for a moment after.

He took a deep, slow breath as they approached. Steel
breathed out sharply as their swords loosened from their ramshackle sheathes.
The air took on the smell of iron and copper. They approached from behind as
Musashi meditated; their steel quivered as the light hit the blades.

His heart beat like the leather drum of a mighty ship
approaching a certain destination. He fancied his attackers could feel it in
the very ground they stood upon. The vibrations through their feet made them
feel numb and light-headed, losing the tips of their swords to a strange
feeling of giddiness as they got close to the kneeling man.

He took one deep breath, taking in the last of the sweet
smells of the cherry blossom tree, its pink petals falling as it swayed in the
wind. Musashi brought his sword forward
in his waist wrap and turned the blade in its scabbard, pushing out his bottom
lip as he did. His grizzled lower jaw cocked to the side as he felt the greasy
stubble on his face with his other hand. He sighed a little as he slowly pushed
up the hilt, gently popping the blade from the sheath with a slight jerking
motion from his thumb.

The blank figures flapped slightly like the sails of a ship
in a changing wind. They sprang to life, having come too close to turn back.
Their fear pushed them onto this mortal stage to face blood and sweat and bone
and will.

The vagabonds tensed their legs and took their stances,
trying to gain strength from the earth. They swallowed and took their pride up
like an iron flag and they bounded towards the old man resting his eyes in the
cool afternoon. He listened to the gears of the world slowly turn, smelling the
sweet and tart smells of the grass and the blossoms mixing in the dying
evening.

Their swords were heavier than his and they bolted forward,
shaking like they were held together with string. His sword was a dancing
feather and cut through the air like a blossom from the cherry tree. His hand
had barely touched it; his grip was light and nourished the blade with his
will; it stayed straight and did not falter in the wind; it moved with it,
flowed on it and cut it like a ship parting the waves. He felt a natural
exhilaration for what was meant to be: men travelling towards their destinies,
whatever they may amount to.

They set on him, their movements those of men underwater.
His great eye saw all their movements but recognised them only as insignificant
shapes in the dark depths of a boundless ocean. His mind only thought of
cutting, his blade sharpened by his burning will, a searing desire to be seen
by the ambivalent god of the moon and stars.

They scattered like leaves, their bodies wanted to be cut;
they were made complete by his blade, a cut for each and each in place; not a
drop of blood fell until it was ready to fall and Musashi sheathed his sword
once more.

Suddenly, as if from the sky itself, a crack appeared and
Musashi felt a foot on his shadow, a tightness in his chest, as if his guard
had been penetrated by some unholy force; he quickly drew his sword again; it
was already halfway out when he heard a scream tear through the heavens, a star
falling with the force of the earth itself. It eclipsed him, like an insect in
the wake of a great mountain.

“TJ STOP SCREWING AROUND IN THE YARD AND TAKE OUT THE
TRASH!”

“MOOOM, I’M FILMING FOR YOUTUBE!”

“-AND YOU BETTER NOT BE PUTTING HOLES IN MY FENCE WITH THAT
SWORD!”

“NO, MOM”.

TJ sighed heavily as he looked at the jagged cut in the
water cooler bottle he had picked up on his way home from the local movie
theatre it bled out over the unevenly cut grass as his fantasy faded into the
corners of his mind. He scratched his neckbeard as he looked at his crappy mall
katana sticking out of the fence, still twitching from the force of the swing.
He must have let go when his mom called him.

He looked into his digital camera and sighed audibly into
the vacant lens.

“Hey fat ass!” A nasal voice rang out from over the fence
and TJ turned like Michael Jackson in ‘Thriller’. “Yeah you, neck beard, over
here!” His neighbour leant on the fence like a crow, with a superior sneer sitting
atop his pointy douche bag goatee. He looked like a hipster Ming the Merciless
with a pair of poser shades dangling from his fingers.

“You better watch it, man. You almost put another hole in my
ass with that pig sticker of yours. Hommie doesn’t play that. My exit hole
remains an exit hole. Feel me?” His neighbour flailed his sunglasses in his
fingers and tried to sound like a black guy.

“Err, wut?”

“What are you doing, man? No one wants to see some fat re-re
in his mommy’s yard, cutting up bottles with a butter knife, when they can see
handsome motherfuckers like me and my associates chopping on some real meat
with some big… mmm weapons!” He smiled and motioned with his sunglasses at TJ’s
camera and his bottle massacre. “We’ve got over sixty thousand billion
subscribers, nigga. Wut chu got, like one-two thousand maybe? Some tight-fisted
jackers fapping their flaccid nubby dicks over fat retards getting sweaty in
extra-large tees.”

TJ averted his gaze as he attempted to jostle his sword free
of the fence. His pits were wet and stinging, shame and anger swelling. He said
nothing and shook his head from side to side trying to get his emo black bangs
out of his sweaty face; he just took it.

“Stay off my fucking YouTube, asshat, and keep that mall
sword crap in your pants.” His neighbour hopped off the fence, laughing. “Now
where the fuck were we? Oh yeah.” He turned to the camera as it focused on his
goateed, smug face, and put his sunglasses back on. He slicked his floppy black
hair back on his head.

Lightning struck his posture as he launched into character,
the cheesy yet edgy game show host spiel in three, two, one: “Wut’s up, Zed
heads! I am Zed Theodore-Brogan, bringing you another face-raping edition of Zombie
Stump Fuckers!

“Time for exposition, kiddies!” Zed quivered with glee. “We
all know the zombie apocalypse is old news; we’re living post-post apocalyptic
now, people, but for all those naysayers saying, ‘But Zed, the zombie
apocalypse already happened and the military already killed them all and cleaned
it up and saved the day in some cousin-fucking backwater and shit - why do you
need to prepare for something that already happened?’ I say ‘Fuck that! I was
doing this before it happened and I’ll keep testing the weapons and skills
you’ll need for the zombie apocalypse if it ever happens again, because why the
fuck not?” Zed sneered at the camera, mocking the naysayers and pointing his
finger. He felt slightly cheated every time he had to fulfil that gratuitous
exposition.

“But that’s all cool, right Gill? Anything could happen.”
Zed sneered ominously at his colleague; the camera panned over to a guy of
around the same age, mid to late twenties, with wavy brown hair, and a little
soul patch hiding under a bit of an overbite. He was covered head to toe in
reasonably priced motocross gear, holding a fibreglass black skull mask in his
gloved fingers. He smiled awkwardly as he felt the camera panning over to him.

“..Err, yeah, you know, there could be, like, scientists, ya
know, who are, like, transporting a vial of zombie jizz in, like, a beaker and
then they could, like, drop it and this whole shit could be back on, but, ya
know, with, like, super zombies, ya know what I’m saying?” Gill croaked,
stumbling over his words, caught a little off guard.

Zed took hold of the lens with his hands, black polished
fingernails greasily handling it. He got close up in the eye and began to spit.

“You see, that’s what this is all about, people. We do this
for you. Yeah, it’s fun, but you need us. YOU NEED US.” Zed walked the camera
around until finally it pointed at a skinny pair of denim-covered knees,
kneeling in a patch of well-kept grass in Zed’s mom’s backyard. “Oh, have we
got a surprise for you on this edition of Zombie Stump Fuckers! All the way
from Lysander labs, in the beautiful San Fernando Valley, meet Bob.”

Zed brought the camera up with a jolt, and steam and bile
bubbled onto the lens as the audience of Zombie Stump Fuckers were given a
close up of a rotting corpse called ‘Bob’.
Wheezing and burping a viscous liquid with each laboured breath, Bob
otherwise seemed quite placid for a flesh-eater.

Zed quickly put his arm around Bob, raising a thumb in
approval. “That’s right, people, we got ourselves a live one. Well, sort of.
You get the picture. Pan out a little, Roy, so they can see the T-shirt.” Zed
shooed the cameraman back as he stepped away from Bob who hadn’t even seemed to
realise he was surrounded by delicious people.

“Yeah, gimme a minute. I wanna get in all the gore on pretty
boy Bob here,” Roy said, his voice muffled by the camera. It was hoarse and
nasal as he squinted to look through the camera, and a harsh spike of
indifference ran through it, mimicking that of the sleaziest of porn producers.

The camera zoomed out jerkily and refocused on Bob’s torso,
showing a garish Zombie Stump Fuckers T-shirt, sodden with cold sweat. The
white T-shirt was embossed with the logo of a stick man having sex with a
decapitated, ghoulish head. “You can pick these bad boys up on our website,
along with a lot of other goodies, like mugs and weapons and all that good
stuff. It helps support the show and keeps the boys looking pretty.”

The camera turned to Zed’s skinny face as he got a little
serious, like a cartoon character doing a little segue or a PSA. “Now kids, a
word about safety: before you go looking for your own zombie to molest in all
different ways, I want you to take notice of the precautions we go through on
this show to reduce the risk of infection.”

Zed went comically close to Bob’s face, poking at his rotten
gums with a gloved finger, as if he was giving him a dental exam. He lifted the
upper mandible to reveal that Bob had no teeth. “See, for all the kids at home,
Bob’s biting days are over. You may also have noticed we didn’t have much use
for his arms, so they went too. It’s all for safety. We’re professionals here
on this show, folks. Don’t try this at home.” Zed chuckled as he flapped the
empty sleeves of Bob’s shirt, with that shit-eating grin plastered all over his
face.

“Ok, now we’ve got the introduction and the shilling out of
the way, it’s time for the moment you’ve been waiting for: run the tape.” Zed
smiled and licked his top row of teeth as he thought about the smell of copper
and iron against freshly cut grass. It was summer and sweet and smoky smells
filled the air; the sounds of lawnmowers and dogs barking rang out, like
droning choirs and off-key bells, over the hills of the small, suburban,
middle-American town. Warm sun on a black T-shirt was a luxurious feeling with
a cold beer in your hand, but all that was pushed out of Zed’s mind as feats of
bloody carnage came bursting forth from his twisted imagination. His hands were
sticky and dank, smelling like raw meat.

A cheesy eight millimetre film noise sample started as a
grindhouse filter was played over the digital video: an extreme close-up of an
obscure metal grate moving atop a red, cushioned plinth inside someone’s
garage; it was covered with black bin liners. The camera panned around the
strange, stainless steel object as different lights and filters were passed
over this mysterious wunderwaffe, revealing spikes and nails and little snaggy,
gratey bits, leather straps and pointy, distorted pieces of metal.

“Brought to you by the people at lethalsilverware.com, made
from solid 440c stainless steel, all the way from exotic China, the one and
only, custom made for the show – the EVISCERGRATOR!” The camera panned back,
jerkily for a grindhouse feel, the film popping and crackling with a digital
effect. It revealed a custom-made pair of lethal cheese graters, a trashy emo
girl caressing them seductively as they sat on a red, velvet pillow.

It cut back to the back garden after the intro. Gill was
putting his skull mask on, for ‘protection’. He affixed the graters to his
hands like gauntlets. The handles had been customized with machine cut g10 and
leather inlays for comfort and maximum grip, with a pair of gaudy, spiked
knuckle dusters for an added angle of attack, although they were already a
formidable piece of kitchenware. The trashy girl from the video appeared, as if
out of nowhere, and began fastening them to his wrists with a series of custom
leather straps and Velcro. He gripped them tightly in his gloved hands and felt
a surge of adrenaline course through him. Although his mask hid his facial
expression, a strange private sense of completion filled his chest and he
swelled with a new emotion that he kept to himself.

“You ready, Gill?”
Roy said, clearing his throat behind the camera.

“-Err yeah.”

“So what’s your plan of attack?” Zed said. Roy flailed the
camera back and forth between them, Zed fighting for screen time between him
and the bewildered space monkey about to be shot from a cannon into his
destiny.

“Err, I think I’m gonna punch it square in the fucking face,
err, and then I’m just gonna grate my way all the way down until I see that
white and pinky mushy stuff on the inside,” Gill mumbled under his stuffy mask.
Nevertheless he felt lean and strong and whole and mean, like an iron rod
straight out of a white hot furnace.

Bob gurgled unintelligibly as Gill took his position, just
off centre; the camera zoomed in gingerly, shaking slightly from side to side
from Roy’s sheer morbid excitement. The zombie was chained to the fence with a
simple dog collar. Zed stood the other side of Bob and quickly unhooked the
leash with a snap, and not much happened. The fight had gone out of Bob with
his teeth and his arms; he was just a meat popsicle and didn’t see a reason to
even rise to his feet. Gill felt a pang of sorrow that got his cock a little
hard for some reason; he didn’t need to dwell on it: this was a mercy killing;
it didn’t mean he couldn’t enjoy it.

Gill straddled the air in front of Bob and levered an
effective punch to the cheekbone. A satisfying crack and a spurt of greenish
red goo were the crescendo to a well-timed strike. Bob’s eyes rolled around in
his head like a pair of soft boiled eggs and he moaned drunkenly as blood and
puss ran ribbons down his chin.

A downward strike sent jagged nails jutting out of the base
of the gauntlets into the soft flesh of the hardest part of Bob’s head,
scraping the front of his skull and top of the skull cap, raking up flesh and
hair and chipping tiny fragments of bone. The zombie drooled and snapped his
jaws open and closed feebly, like someone getting back alley brain surgery. A
large portion of flesh came loose from the top front part of his head. He
slumped forward like a wind-up toy slowly running out of turns, and it made
Gill feel maudlin and out of place. This triggered a sudden hatred for himself
and he struck at the side of Bob’s head angrily, sideways, into the soft parts
of his face, dislodging a portion Bob’s jaw. He rent the gummy flesh from the
cheek and tongue with the barbed nails and teeth of the cheese grater. Flesh
clung to the glistening metal teardrop blades, ripping like razor wire on
tender meat.

Bob fell to the grassy ground of Zed’s mom’s backyard; she
was passed out upstairs, already a fifth into a bottle of cheap store brand
booze at three in the afternoon, chasing lunch away with an empty stomach,
racing the hours down until the room stopped spinning.

Bob rolled onto his back breathlessly, gasping without
sound, as if he were trying to form words without a tongue or a bottom jaw: ‘No,
please, stop, help!’ Something like that, all in the eyes alone. His body was a
coffin made of rotting flesh, yet something stoked a tiny ember of humanity
encased in that soggy husk.

“Finish it,” Roy said coldly behind the harsh gaze of the
camera’s eye. His voice was like the sound of a penny hitting the dry bed of a
deep well.

Gill paused for a moment. He looked at Bob’s eyes flitting
around sleepily, and felt like a monster, all decked out in plastic and tin, a
mask. He wanted to crawl inside that mask and forget he had a face. Zed’s smile,
like the wings of a crow, cast a long shadow on Gill, and his pause became
painful.

He knelt beside Bob, placing his off-colour head between the
monstrous cheese graters and began to use them as the manufacturer intended. He
held tight to the handles of the graters and began to move his arms back and
forth like he was trying to start a campfire against the sides of Bob’s head,
grating his flesh. His knotted, matted hair became tangled in the graters’
teeth as Gill grated faster and faster, ripping the hair and the flesh,
grinding the bone. Snapping sounds went deeper: wet sawing sounds, like a magic
act gone terribly wrong; popping, cracking, hissing, pressure being released:
sprays of old, dark blood, as he reduced the head quickly to a lumpy, gritty
pink paste dotted with soggy bone fragments and matted hair. He almost expected
the eyes to pop out of Bob’s head comedically from the pressure, but instead,
they burst like warm grapes and were ground down to pulp with the rest of the
matter in Bob’s skull.

All that was left was a portion of the back of the head and
the throat; the tonsils were visible, making the remnants of his head seem like
the discarded core of an apple. The tonsils jostled disconcertingly from
remaining nerve activity and a hissing, guttural noise came from the open
throat, as well as a noxious smell, like an open manhole cover.

Gill stood up and inhaled. He was sweating all over his
armour. The graters were covered in gore and muck and rotten flesh and hair, and
bits of bone; he smelled like an abandoned slaughterhouse. He swallowed a
little sick and walked out of shot.

“Fuck,” Roy said, under his breath behind the camera, with a
poorly hidden pang of excitement in his voice.

“Well, there you have it, folks - cheese graters: man’s
greatest weapons against the zombie horde, if they should return in our
lifetimes.” Zed snapped the camera back to his smiling face, putting on his
faux movie announcer voice. “Thanks for tuning in, folks, to another face-grating
edition of Zombie Stump-Fuckers. Don’t forget to thumb up the video and
subscribe to our channel for more zombie eviscerating action. This is your
loyal host, Zed Theodore Brogan, preparing you for the zombie
apocalypse…again.”

~

Dejected, TJ went back inside the house, feeling the sting
of a verbal wedgie deep down in the sacred regions of his taint, which itched
something fierce today in the midsummer heat. He recovered his sword from the
fence and dreamily thumbed a slight imperfection in the cheap Chinese sheet
steel blade.

The TV was on in the living room and a pretty reporter in a
puffy jacket was spilling exposition like a leaky sieve, but TJ’s mind was
otherwise occupied as he stood fawning over the damaged blade.

“Only seven months ago this town was thick with the undead:
small town America, ravaged by a deadly virus that turned regular human beings
into flesh-eating walking corpses. Today we hold a memorial for those who fell
to this outbreak and we say ‘never again’.” The pretty brunette, in her long
puffy coat, took two steps to stand beside some local yokel, with eyes as
glassy as an smart phone store, before she tilted the microphone under his
glorious blonde neckbeard. “Diane Redfern, Channel 8 News. We’re joined by the
only known survivor of the Arkham, Louisiana outbreak, BJ Tirk. BJ, can you
tell us a little about the incident?”

“Well now, I didn’t see much. I was up at the truck stop,
trying get my dick sucked at the time, then everyone started eating each other and
it was just horrible” The fat thirty-something shook his chins. Someone stern
cleared his throat behind the camera. The yokel tucked his shoulder-length
blond hair behind his ears as he started to get a little more serious. He put
on a set of black-rimmed hipster glasses and began talking again but in a more
mechanical voice as he awkwardly read from a pre-released statement someone
handed him off camera in his hillbilly drawl. “Erm, well Diane, I was just
mind-ing my own business, when the zombies appeared, pause. Then luck-eely I
was saved by the military and a shadowy government agency that prefers to go
unnamed at this time; looks at Diane Redferne.” Diane cleared her throat
uncomfortably and tried to salvage the interview.

“So not a single survivor but you? You must be very lucky
and happy to be alive. Do you have any idea how the incident started?”

“I reckon it was dem damn Iraqis what done it or maybe some
damn athee-ists.” BJ was cut off by another angry throat clearing from behind
the camera as he went back to his sheet of paper. The camera panned up to avoid
showing it, but could still pick up his nervous rustling. “I be-lieve, looks at
camera, the outbreak was a bio-log-log-logical attack perp-petrated by a
radical animal rights group, looks indig-wut?... Err, as a revenge attack for
the local pig-wrestling tournament and hog roast that was sched-uled later on
that day, Di-ane.” Diane cleared her throat with a mortified expression, trying
desperately to keep her composure in the presence of this colossal boob,
towering six feet of flabby, sweaty man meat over her.

“Al-right, well, thank you, Mr.Tirk. This is Diane Redfern
going back to the studio.”

“Damn liberal communist Iraqi atheist faggots!”

“Cut him off, now!”

The news broadcast ended with an angry fumbling sound and
harsh whispers, static and then a pair of bewildered news anchors tried to move
on.

“Gross!” TJ sighed and scrunched his nose up as he probed
the nicked edge of the blade with his pudgy thumb. It snagged on a sharp shard
of metal, drawing a ruby tear of blood. He reacted sleepily to the cut and
placed the thumb in his mouth with a disgusted, distant look on his face. “Ow”.

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Roxie:
This was a very well thought out story and I greatly enjoyed it! I don't usually go for these kinds of stories because of clichés and what not, nut this was great. There were a few typos and grammatical errors, but that is to be expected. While I knew the overall end of the story It was engaging ...

Dina Husseini:
I loved this story. It was so great that I did not expect it to be this awesome. I swear to you this deserves more than just 5 stars. Beyond amazing. Kept me wanting more and I felt exactly like Emma felt while reading. Although in the beginning I did not expect anything to happen. Then, when som...

Karl12:
This story is written in a fun, amusing way, which caught my attention from the very beginning. This, so to speak, “free” style of writing is something I really enjoyed. It gives a great flow to the story, makes it interesting, easy to read and keeps it dynamic. I loved that both Nate’s and Laney...

Bri Hoffer:
I couldn't put it down!! The characters are all incredibly likable, and it's so descriptive you can see, smell, and feel thier surroundings. Great story, and very well written. I cannot wait for follow up stories. there were a few grammatical errors, but nothing that I could move right over.

rak9485:
I just finished with ch 24 n the story cut off at the end of the chapter please tell me there is more to this story I need to know the ending like if they end up together. do they have sex or not? do they date? is she to afraid to b in a relationship after Tyler.

graceeming:
I LOVE this book, it has the setting that I just love and the way the characters are built through the whole story is something else I love. I 100% recommend this to anyone, you'll be surprised about this. I was, and this is my go-to book.

ianwatson:
The comedy is original and genuinely funny, I have laughed out loud many times reading this book. But the story and the plot are also really engaging. The opening two or three chapters seem quite character-dense but they all soon come to life and there is no padding, filling or wasted time readin...

BFIrving:
A first rate story and well crafted, the blend of horror and action worked very well indeed and had me turning page after page. When not actually reading it, I found myself thinking about it which is always a good sign.There are quite a few grammatical and spell-checker errors but nothing anothe...

matrixmark:
I thought that the introduction to this was relly well written and structurally sound in its presentation.The introduction to the cabin in the woods was good too. To me, it felt like a Blair Witch of yesteryear, but the things which you added in about the mutilated boys were certainly something n...

maewilde25:
I liked this, though it dragged on for over 200pages and heaven knows I did not expect the plot twist in the middle. David being Cristiãn. I was wondering when he would show up and didn't know he was there all along. it looks like there should be a sequel, please let there be a sequel. I know the...

Jennifer Kane Martin:
I am a high school teacher, and the dialogue and inner thoughts are PERFECT. However, the lack of capitalization, punctuation, and the typos are distracting. Don't let these get in the way of a potentially good story.

Rebeccaseal:
This was an almost perfect story that I would recommend to anyone. The only thing I would work on is painting a more realistic picture of Haiathiel. Somehow the environment seemed limited, and the land itself a bit unfinished. This can be solved simply by added descriptions to people and places. ...

debmart6901:
I could not put this story down. I stayed up reading when I should have been in bed. could not get enough, could not wait to find how it ended. Great story telling. Great detail. Loved it. The characters were very vivid.

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